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Maybe if it was in context it would make more sense like if you had friends over and you were having a milk and water drinking contest. You might say you drink the water and we drink the milk. Other context would be "we drink milk for breakfast".

Like "Usted es un niño", you would never say "usted" to a child, which doesn't mean the phrase is wrong, it's perfectly valid. Again, notice the sentence of the excercise, "bebemos la leche", you have to translate, in this case, each word. I'm a native spanish speaker, by the way, so I know what's natural or not to the language.

nosotros is masculine, but can include female when you are talking about all, like "nosotros somos humanos" "we are humans". But when you use nosotras, is always femenine. In this sentence "Nosotras bebemos la leche" we have to assume that what is being talked about is a group of woman (which we belong to), is drinking milk. Nosotras refers to the group, not the milk. If you are in a mixed group or men or women it would be Nosotros, or if the group is only males it would be Nosotros. Hope that helps

Is "nosotras" feminine in the sentence because "leche" is a feminine word, or because "nosotras" is referring to a group of women, similar to "nina" referring to a girl? Is is "We (women) drink the milk"?

This does not necessarily be translated as "We drink the milk". In English, the use of the definite article the, would indicate that something was specific about the milk. The normal translation would be "We drink milk". A